Fake #5 Xi Jinping spends hours talking with Lukashenko, but ignores European leaders
Fake appearance date: 09.12.2023
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Alexander Lukashenko flew to China on December 4, where he had a meeting with the head of the People's Republic of China. Alexander Lukashenko flew to China on December 4, where he had a meeting with the head of the People's Republic of China. Although the planned duration of the meeting with Xi Jinping was 1 hour, it lasted 3 hours.
Discussing this news on the TV channel’s Belarus 1 program “Editor’s Club” on December 9, both MP Oleg Gaidukevich and the head of Belteleradiocompany Ivan Eismont claimed that the Chinese chairman has completely different relationships with European leaders:
“Do you think it is so easy to meet with the leader of China? Many European leaders cannot meet him,” Oleg Gaidukevich said.
“And I’ll [interrupt] you for 30 seconds... The leader of the PRC spent less than an hour with the German Chancellor and they did not shake hands. He talked with Macron for half an hour. And he did not talk at all with Ursula von der Leyen,” Ivan Eismont continued.
The recent meeting between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Xi Jinping lasted about two hours. It took place in November 2022, when strict anti-Covid restrictions were still in effect in China. That is why both leaders of China and Germany avoided shaking hands.
The visit of the President of France to Beijing took place in April 2023. Then Xi Jinping spent two days with Emmanuel Macron.
One-and-a-half-hour meeting took place on the first day. The informal meeting in Guangzhou province and a joint dinner — on the second day.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen met with the head of the People's Republic of China twice this year. The first time was in April when she flew there with Macron. The second was on December 7, when The 24th EU-China summit was held in China.
The fact that the third “One Belt, One Road” forum was held in October in Beijing for the first time without Lukashenko’s participation was kept silent by Oleg Gaidukevich and Ivan Eismont.
In June, while congratulating Xi Jinping on his birthday, Lukashenko said that he was ready to come to this event. Then in September, Foreign Minister ща Belarus Sergei Aleinik announced that the country's leadership planned to take part in the Beijing conference. Despite all of that, Belarus was not invited.